Schweifel Surname

1,860,621st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 99 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Israel

Schweifel Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Schweifel Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany601:1,341,75884,137
United States221:16,475,406557,260
Israel161:534,85239,210
Canada11:36,845,591464,108

Schweifel Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Schweifel Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Schweifel is found most frequently in Germany. It may also occur as:. Click here for further potential spellings of Schweifel.

How Common Is The Last Name Schweifel? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 1,860,621st most widely held family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 73,611,575 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 61 percent of Schweifel reside; 61 percent reside in Western Europe and 61 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

The surname is most frequently occurring in Germany, where it is carried by 60 people, or 1 in 1,341,758. In Germany Schweifel is most frequent in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 77 percent live, Lower Saxony, where 18 percent live and Hamburg, where 2 percent live. Outside of Germany it occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 22 percent live and Israel, where 16 percent live.

Schweifel Last Name Statistics demography

Schweifel earn significantly less than the average income. In United States they earn 32.12% less than the national average, earning $29,288 USD per year.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Schweifel
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